Welcome to today’s live blog - on the day Facebook went down (at least temporarily)

We will be keeping you up-to-date with all the breaking news for the county, and sharing with you some of our top stories from Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud, Tewkesbury, the Forest of Dean and the Cotswolds.

Our live news feed below will bring you the latest from the county’s roads. So if there’s a problem on the M5 or A40, you will read about it here.

We will bring you the latest from the police and the courts and keep an eye on that all-important weather.